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The Last Surviving Widow of a Civil War Veteran Dies at 101 - RJNorton - 01-09-2021 03:34 PM
Helen Viola Jackson married James Bolin in 1936, when she was 17 and he was 93.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/last-surviving-widow-civil-war-veteran-dies-101-180976702/
Many thanks to Bob Cook for sending the above link.
RE: The Last Surviving Widow of a Civil War Veteran Dies at 101 - Gene C - 01-09-2021 04:55 PM
Thanks for posting Bob
Here is an article from the Daily Mail, with a few photo's
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9116661/Last-widow-Civil-War-veteran-dies-101-Woman-married-93-year-old-aged-17-passes-away.html
RE: The Last Surviving Widow of a Civil War Veteran Dies at 101 - Eva Elisabeth - 01-10-2021 12:14 PM
Amazing! In the 1930s photo her face looks like in the "nowadays" one.
RE: The Last Surviving Widow of a Civil War Veteran Dies at 101 - Steve - 01-20-2021 04:31 AM
If, as the article claims, she never lived with the man and the children objected - I don't think the pension office would've given her a pension if she applied.